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“recouvert” and “recouverts” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#10,568
“recouvert” frequency rank
#19,962
“recouverts” frequency rank
30530
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature recouvert recouverts
Definition Complètement couvert. Masculin pluriel de recouvert.

Same sound, different letters: recouvert vs recouverts

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. recouvert runs 9 letters (CVCVVCVCC) against recouverts's 10 (CVCVVCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
recouvert
10 ch
recouverts

Homophone desk: recouvert vs recouverts

This is the hard kind. recouvert and recouverts are pronounced identically (\ʁə.ku.vɛʁ\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “recouvert” sits inside “recouverts”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30530, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

recouvert is recorded at frequency rank #10,568, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.ku.vɛʁ\. recouverts is at rank #19,962, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁə.ku.vɛʁ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 30530, this pair ranks #309,686 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of recouvert vs recouverts

Shared letters: ceortuv. Private to "recouvert": -. Private to "recouverts": s.

"recouvert" · 9 letters · shape CVCVVCVCC  ·  "recouverts" · 10 letters · shape CVCVVCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • recouvert ← ercouvert · rceouvert · reccouvert · recouevrt · recouverrt · recouvertt · recouvetr · recouvret
  • recouverts ← ercouverts · rceouverts · reccouverts · recouevrts · recouverrts · recouverst · recouvertss · recouvertts

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "recouvert" and "recouverts" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.ku.vɛʁ\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "recouvert" vs "recouverts" - which ranks higher?
"recouvert" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,568 in our French list, against #19,962 for "recouverts". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "recouvert" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "recouverts" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #309,686 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "recouvert" and "recouverts" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "recouper vs recouvert". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #309,686 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list